Leon Panetta: The Discredited Hack Who Signed the Hunter Laptop Lie Now Calls Taking Out Narco-Scum a “War Crime”
Look who’s slithered out of his cushy California think-tank bunker to lecture real warriors: Leon Panetta, the ultimate establishment swamp creature, Obama’s yes-man who helped tank American power for eight miserable years. This fossil just accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of committing a “war crime” for blasting a boatload of Venezuelan narco-terrorists who were hauling poison across the Caribbean straight toward our borders. Yeah, the same Panetta who put his name on that fraudulent 2020 letter claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinfo” – a lie so blatant even the Washington Post had to admit it was garbage years later. And now this partisan relic thinks he’s the arbiter of battlefield ethics? Give me a break.
Pete Hegseth green-lit strikes that vaporized eleven Tren de Aragua thugs on September 2, sinking their scum-mobile and stopping whatever fentanyl load they were shoving toward our kids. A couple survivors clung to the wreckage? Boom – second strike to finish the job and eliminate the threat. Panetta calls that a war crime because, gasp, you can’t shoot wounded bad guys in the water. Cry me a river. These aren’t boy scouts on a raft; these are cartel animals flooding our streets with death. Hegseth’s team made sure the boat went down for good. Good riddance. That’s called protecting America, something Panetta never grasped.
But hey, let’s talk about the guy flinging the accusations, because Panetta’s record is a steaming pile of failure wrapped in cowardice.
Obama’s Loyal Lapdog: From CIA Dungeon Master to Pentagon Paper-Pusher
Panetta slimed into the CIA directorship in 2009, right when Obama was ramping up drone hellfire on weddings and goat herders across the Middle East. Thousands of strikes, hundreds of civilians turned to pink mist – including American citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son, whacked without a trial. Panetta bragged about it as “precise” and “effective.” No war crime screams from him then. Funny how bombing camel jockeys from a joystick in Virginia is fine, but sinking a drug boat full of gangsters is suddenly Geneva Convention heresy.
Then he slid over to Defense Secretary in 2011, just in time to oversee the gutting of our military and the rise of ISIS. He was in the Situation Room on September 11, 2012, when our guys in Benghazi were begging for help while jihadis overran the compound. Four Americans slaughtered – Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods – and what did Panetta do? Nothing. No AC-130s, no Spectre gunships, no rapid response. Just watched it burn while Obama prepped for a Vegas fundraiser. Panetta later whined there wasn’t time to save them. Bull. Forces were available, orders were stalled, and Americans died because this administration cared more about not offending Muslims than winning.
And Iraq? Panetta helped Obama bug out completely in 2011, handing the country to Iran on a silver platter. ISIS exploded out of that vacuum, beheading Americans on video while Panetta collected his paycheck. He even admitted later in his kiss-and-tell book that Obama blew it by pulling out too soon. Too late, genius – the caliphate was already raping and pillaging because you clowns lost the peace.
Post-Obama Gravy Train: Cable News Clown and Election Meddler
After cashing out in 2013, Panetta set up his little “institute” in Monterey – basically a retirement home where he pontificates for donor cash. But his real gig? CNN’s go-to Trump-basher, popping up every week to clutch pearls about mean tweets while collecting appearance fees. This is the guy who helped rig the 2020 election by signing that infamous letter with 50 other intelligence has-beens, swearing Hunter’s laptop screamed “Russian operation.” Total lie. The FBI had the thing for a year, knew it was real, and Panetta still peddled the hoax to swing votes to Biden.
President Trump fixed that noise on day one in 2025 – yanked the security clearances from all 51 of those liars, Panetta included. Stripped him bare. And now, desperate to stay relevant, he crawls onto CNN to accuse Hegseth of war crimes for… winning against cartels? Pathetic.
Why Panetta’s Latest Tantrum Is Laughable Garbage
This “war crime” nonsense is straight out of the Democrat playbook: smear warriors who actually fight while protecting the scum killing our people. Hegseth didn’t order troops to machine-gun surrendering POWs – he took out narco-terrorists before they could dump another load of death on our shores. The boat was still a threat, survivors or not. Fog of war, folks. These thugs don’t wear uniforms; they don’t get kid-glove treatment.
Panetta sat silent while Obama droned villages and abandoned Benghazi. He lied to steal an election. Now he attacks a real fighter for doing what America elected Trump to do: crush the bastards poisoning us. Spare me the fake outrage, Leon. You’re not defending “rules of war” – you’re defending the open-borders cartel pipeline because your side loves the chaos.
Pete Hegseth is making America safe again. Leon Panetta spent his career making us weak. Crawl back to your beach house, you irrelevant hack. Your time is over. Our warriors finally have a leader who lets them win. Deal with it.